Research On The Martial Arts Books And Literatures During The Republic Of China

The Chinese martial arts books and literatures are the culture crystallization of predecessors summed up in our country in the long-term social practice, which has the very high academic value. The Republic of China is a special period, which forms a connecting link between the preceding. Inevitably, that martial arts historical materials had characteristics of the time transformation. The purpose of this paper is to organize and protect the Republic of China excellent martial arts culture heritage,for the future martial arts books and literatures provided valuable reference.Based On 388 martial arts books and literatures from the network database,books and references from online book platform, solid reference room and library, we research and analysis the republic of China literature, applying the method of literature, books, literature collection method, mathematical statistics and logic analysis and other methods. With detailed statistical data about book name, author,ways of formation, publishing and distribution establishment, publication time,republication times in the Republic of China and after, series of martial arts, the main achievement and feature about the period martial arts is summarized. Main results are summarized as follows:(1) A large number of books and literatures published in the period of republic of China, rich contents and far-reaching influence, including boxing, instruments Martial Arts, defensive Martial arts, Martial arts theory, Qigong and other forms.(2) There is a very obvious difference of the authors’ distribution.The authors mainly from the famous Martial Arts Master. The literatures always wtitten by individual authors and sometimes by co-authors. The high output authors are most from the martial arts organizations such as the central martial arts museum, and the research field mainly tend to tai chi, xingyi, shaolin, eight tri-grams, and tam legs, etc.(3) There were various forming ways and came into Teaching, Talking,Teaching-recording, Performing and Drawing,etc, but in terms of the formation of the main way, and still is given priority to with the formation of a single way, manifests the remarkable achievements during the period of the republic of China martial arts books literature creation.(4) During the period of the republic of China martial arts books literature publishing unit is more, the number of publications and publishing books in eastChina far ahead of other areas, including in Shanghai, for the most, and the commercial press of Shanghai as the leading publishing unit.(5) Throughout the period of the republic of China martial arts books literature published a brief history of time, the momentum fluctuation due to the comprehensive factors. From 1929 to 1937, martial arts books printed literature has reached the peak,and the year in 1930 reached during the period of the republic of China martial arts books published literature.(6) Most martial arts books literature during the period of the republic of China for the reprint and print, reprint and print a lot of martial arts books literature focused on the tai chi, shaolin, xingyi quan, tan leg quan, yi jin jing, ba duan jing and qigong,etc.(7) In martial arts books literature during the period of the republic of China,belongs to the series of 167 books, from the point of content, the book can be divided into three categories: 27 kinds of professional martial arts series, 10 kinds of sports series and 17 kinds of culture series.(8) During the period of the republic of China on the part of the republic of China before publishing of martial arts books reprint, reprint, to a certain extent, reflects the martial arts books literature academic value and practical value.Finally, according to the Scattering and Losing situation of martial arts books and literatures during the period of the republic of China, put forward the Necessity and Peasivility to constructing the database of the martial arts books and literatures republic of China.